2024-06-02 17:02:58
With targets from its stars Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas, Barcelona defeated Lyon (2-0) and defended its title within the Ladies’s Champions League, this Saturday in Bilbao, establishing itself as the nice reference with three titles in 4 years.
The title, the third after 2021 and 2023, consummates a change within the European hegemony of girls’s soccer on the membership degree.
Barça has delivered to its knees the till just lately undisputed dominator of the competitors with eight titles, with whom it had misplaced its 4 earlier matches, displaying in San Mamés an excellent combinative recreation that dismantled a staff from Lyon incapable of making severe hazard towards a protected Cata Coll beneath sticks.
‘The Cathedral’ of Spanish soccer and its 50,827 followers current, principally culés – many Lyon followers had been ready within the metropolis of Lille for the boys’s French Cup remaining with PSG – attended within the midst of an environment of Barça effervescence to a brand new coronation of the gamers led by Jonatan Giráldez, who says goodbye to the Barça bench with a wealth of titles this season (League, Queen’s Cup, Spanish Tremendous Cup and Champions League).
– Aitana and Alexia, gold –
Barcelona, at the least till they took the lead, dominated the sport, possession, and saved the ball nearer to the Chilean Christiane Endler’s space.
The primary percussions on the fitting facet of the Norwegian Caroline Graham, whose facilities couldn’t be taken benefit of by Sandra Paralluelo first (Endler stopped) and by Mariona Caldentey later (she went large) urged that it might not be a straightforward afternoon for a Lyon that arrived as the one undefeated staff within the competitors and that had scored of their ten video games performed on this Champions League.
Barça moved the ball judiciously, whereas the French appeared for a extra direct recreation that was reduce off on the three-quarter line. Nevertheless, the Blaugranas had Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí, whose shot from inside the world touched Vanessa Gilles simply sufficient to beat Endler and open the scoring.
Lyon went on the assault, with the entry into play of one other former Ballon d’Or winner, Ada Hegerberg, however Giráldez, who will go to the American championship subsequent season, checked out his bench and located a world champion and former Ballon d’Or winner. Gold like Alexia Putellas, who sentenced with a robust shot that licensed the Barça title.